Tuberculosis Reports

The Annual Tuberculosis Report summarises the descriptive epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) notifications (disease and latent infections) in New Zealand.

Each report focuses on a particular year but also examines five-year trends and includes TB drug susceptibility data and TB molecular typing data.

Universal molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates was introduced in July 2002, conducted by LabPlus in Auckland under contract to the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), with funding by the Ministry of Health.